Explorers

I was truly the first person in the Americas. I arrived here with my Viking friends in the year 1000 AD.

• Christopher Columbus

• Marco Polo

• Leif Erickson

• John Cabot

I was the first person to finally realize that Columbus was NOT in Asia, but they had been in a new land. America was named after me.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Marco Polo

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Ferdinand Magellan

I took control of the Inca empire and claimed it for Spain.

• Hernando Cortes

• Ponce de Leon

• Hernando de Soto

• Francisco Pizarro

I started a school for navigators and people who wanted to go out exploring.

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry

• Marco Polo

• Ferdinand Magellan

I was the person who named the Pacific Ocean. My men were among the first to travel around the world, but unfortunately I died in battle in the Philippine Islands.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Jacques Cartier

• Ferdinand Magellan

I wrote a book about the riches that I found in China.

• Prince Henry

• Marco Polo

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortes

I am the conquistador that went looking for the Seven Cities of Gold. Though I never found these cities, I did conquer much of what is today the southwestern U.S. for Spain.

• Henry Hudson

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernando de Soto

• Francisco Coronado

I crossed the Isthmus of Panama and found the Pacific Ocean as I climbed over a mountaintop.

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Francisco Pizarro

• Ferdinand Magellan

• John Cabot

I believed I could read Asia by traveling west across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. I asked the king and queen of Spain to pay for my journey.

• John Cabot

• Pedro Cabral

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando Cortes

I am a conquistador that conquered the Aztec empire and built Mexico City.

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernando de Soto

• Hernando Cortes

• Francisco Coronado